Chapter 37: Von Schneider

"That's right, it looks like Professor Schneider helped me find it first." Manstein stepped forward slowly, stretched out his hand, and after a pause, took the seal in Schneider's hand.

No one knows how Schneider, a disabled man who had to drag an oxygen cylinder every step of the way, got the dossier first, but at least the person who can be the head of the executive department always has two brushes.

"You're not the only one in this school who cares about this strange student." Schneider let go of his hand and let the documents fall into Manstein's hands: "What's wrong with his file?" It's worth checking it out overnight. ”

"Little problem, yesterday when he was physically tested, the file file did not record the timestamp." Manstein pulled out a document from it: "I'll send a fax to Norma after the correction, and try to update the file information by tomorrow morning." ”

"Does the timestamp of a physical test affect a student's ancestry rating?" Schneider stared into Manstein's eyes, as if trying to see something else.

Manstein didn't say anything, just lifted the document between the two, Schneider glanced at the bottom of the document, and sure enough, there was no information in the file time column, if someone accessed this document one day, they would only know that the student had taken a physical test, but the specific time of the physical test and the situation of the student's physical test would not be known.

The file was submitted by Manstein, and its secrecy was made so secret that even Norma couldn't change any of the information in it, so it was impossible to add a simple timestamp to it.

"It seems that the students have commented well, and Professor Manstein is indeed a meticulous person." Schneider raised his hand and pressed Manstein's arm to re-look him in the eyes.

"I won't be sloppy in matters related to the promotion of my students' bloodlines, and any mistakes should be investigated." Manstein's face did not move.

"I heard that your student answered ten questions in the 3E exam today." Schneider smiled hoarsely, "You do have the right to have faith in itβ€”the most promising student in recent years to become an 'S' class." ”

"It would be an honor for me to be able to train an 'S' class student by hand, and perhaps it will add a lot of color to my lifelong professor's file." Manstein took the sealing clip in his hand and turned to the cabinet that belonged to Lin Nian.

"Professor Manstein." Schneider suddenly called out to Manstein.

Manstein paused, but did not look back.

"You and I both know why you're here tonight, the idea of the entrance test is really good, even if someone uses Norma to find out about tonight's events afterwards, you won't have the slightest trick to do. But since you have concerns, why not just give up on the student? Schneider asked coldly.

"Did Professor Schneider take any students?" Manstein, with his back to Schneider, asked.

"Of course, the first prerequisite for becoming a tenured professor is to successfully produce an excellent graduate."

"I'm sure you remember what your mental activity was like when you signed the paperwork agreeing to take the student?" Manstein said.

"I've been away from students for years, you know that." Schneider said.

"So you know, one day we're going to send these kids to the battlefield with our own hands, and I just hope that there won't be the slightest doubt or slander behind them." Manstein, who had his back to Schneider, looked down at the stacks of files taken out of the sealed folder and said lightly.

"We are secrets, and this is our duty." Schneider's eyes were a cold iron gray.

"But we're also educators, don't say you didn't treat your students as your own." Manstein said.

There was silence in the archives, and after a while, Schneider turned around and dragged the cart loaded with oxygen cylinders beside him: "The real confidential files are not here, the life you see now has been polished, and his real resume has probably already been sent to the school board." ”

Manstein silently put Lin Nian's documents in his hand into the sealed folder, and the plan to obtain the confidential student files through a meaningless physical test finally failed, just as Schneider said, all the documents in the sealed folder were the same as the information he obtained when he first came into contact with Lin Nian, and things were far from simple.

It is impossible for him to believe that with the intelligence sources in the hands of the secret party, he cannot investigate the "origin" of a Chinese student without any background, you must know that when the execution department is on a mission, the ancestors of any suspicious person, their relatives and friends will be thoroughly investigated, but the files about Lin Nian are only orphans, and there are no other secrets.

Lin Nian seemed to appear out of thin air, and one day he landed at the door of an orphanage in that coastal town, and the file did not even indicate who abandoned him in the orphanage, perhaps the real information had already been secretly passed into the hands of higher-level people as Schneider said.

"Since you care so much about him, maybe putting him in a specific environment will reveal his true appearance." Schneider said coldly, "Isn't your student following the first-year freshman class right now?" I could ask Norma to add him a fixed battlefield practice class for half a year of freshman year. ”

"Are you crazy? He has just entered the school, and he has only half a foot on the threshold of the dragon world! Manstein exclaimed.

"Whether you step in or not, the real world is always there, do you think that if you hide from it, it will be gone?" Schneider said hoarsely, "You think he has 'S' class potential, well, let him prove himself!" ”

"Then I can only go and protest to the school board, if you have a student, you will care about him as much as I do, Professor von Schneider." Manstein gloomily placed the sealant in a brown paper bag and placed it in the cabinet shelf.

"Perhaps, but I'd rather dig up all his secrets by hand than a night visit to the archives." Schneider said hoarsely: "Recently, the executive department received an abnormal feedback, saying that there is an IP address in a small city in China that is constantly trying to find the address of the academy on the Internet, and we dug up the other party's information, guess what we found?" ”

"The group of hunters at the Hunter Site? I've heard that group of people have always had ideas about the Academy. Manstein looked at Schneider's back and frowned: "But I'm not interested in this, it's a matter for your executive department." ”

"No, you should be interested, that small Chinese city is the coastal city where your students have lived for decades, and the person looking for the address of the college is a boy from the same school as him." Schneider chuckled, "What a coincidence, isn't it?" There are two great people in the same city, maybe one day we can find a third there? ”

Manstein's brows were furrowed and he could wring out the water, and he suddenly thought of some of the words that Lin Nian had said on the CC1000 express train before, but at the moment, he was in a depressed mood, and he couldn't remember those words and connect them with what Schneider said.

"Judging by the progress of his search on the Internet, the group of people in the Department of Psychology speculate that after half a year, the boy will be tempted to come and look for us in person, but interestingly, he hasn't even appeared on our watch list before this, and even your students are on our record." Schneider dragged the car to the elevator in the distance: "I'll interview him in person, because it's so interesting, isn't it?" ”

Manstein didn't answer him, but watched in silence as the black, emaciated figure disappeared behind the closed elevator door, and the violent coughing sound coming from the elevator as it ascended until it disappeared.